On the Internet, publications about the unique Brazilian city are widespread, the entire population of which is women. We decided to check if this is true.

ABOUT settlement called Nova-Do-Kordir, where supposedly Live 600 women and not a single man have been reporting for ten years Media, Information And Entertaining Portals, resources About travel, users of the blog platforms (Livejournal, "Zen") And social networks (Facebook*, "VKontakte"). Some authors They saythat the entrance to the city is prohibited for men, other - That local residents, on the contrary, are actively looking for men with whom you can get married.

A settlement called Neuva-Do-Kordiru (which is translated from Portuguese as the "Bride of the Lamb") in Brazil really exists. For the first time he came into the field of view of the media in 2014. Then British publications (for example, The Mirror, Metro And The Telegraph) They published the news: residents of this city, most of which are from 20 to 35 years old, desperately need husbands, since there are not enough local male population. The articles clarified that some of them are still married and have families, but spouses are allowed to come only for the weekend.

After the release of these notes, journalists BBC We decided to figure out whether the situation is really the way the tabloids described it. They contacted several residents of Nova-Do-Kordir, and they said that they did not conduct any campaign to search for husbands. According to them, not 600 people lived in the settlement at that time, as reported in articles, but 350. Among them were men, and women aged 20–35 were not most of the age. Conducting a campaign to attract men to the community refuted And FACECHERS From Brazil and other countries.

In 2023, National Geographic magazine Published Large report from Nova-Do-Kordir. Locals told reporters about the history of the settlement. It arose at the end of the 19th century, when a girl named Maria Senorinya de Lima came to this place - she and her lover escaped from her husband, for whom she was given out against her will. In the punishment of de Limu and her descendants, he was excommunicated from the church. Later, other devoted anathema or disagreed with public foundations of the Brazilians joined the pair in exile. So a settlement was formed, free from prejudices and dogmas. However, in the 1940s, the Protestant priest Anisio Pereira, who married one of the local residents and founded his church, got there. With the growth of his influence, the orders in Nova-Do-Kordiri were seriously tightened: until the priest’s death in 1995, women in the settlement did not have the right to vote and were subordinate to men in everything. However, now, apparently, in matters of equality, it differs little from other villages and small towns in modern Brazil.

The Facebook settlement page is quite actively updated, almost every day new photo - On Some Of these, there are men. However, women in the pictures really prevail. How explained AFP agency local resident, most of the male population of the village works In a two-hour ride in the city of Belu-Orizonti, the capital of Minas-Zirace, and returns home only for the weekend. The existence of a ban on their arrival in Nova-Do-Kordier could not be confirmed on other days.

Thus, the settlement of Nova-Do-Kordir in Brazil really exists, but its inhabitants are not exclusively women. Entrance to the city is not prohibited for men, but many of them really spend most of the week to earn money in the nearest large city and return only to the weekend. The reports that the residents of Noyva-Do-Kordir were so desperate to find a spouse that they called for Milostyakov from all over the world to come to their settlement, were also not confirmed.

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Photo on the cover: Facebook Noiva Do Cordeiro